Top 100 Tupac's Quotes
#1. It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.
Tupac Shakur
#2. I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.
Tupac Shakur
#3. I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll know it word-for-word. That's why I feel like I got my own sound - or a D.C. sound.
Shy Glizzy
#4. Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.
Tupac Shakur
#5. The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
Tupac Shakur
#6. It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.
Tupac Shakur
#7. When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah ... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.
Tupac Shakur
#9. There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.
There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class
on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.
Tupac Shakur
#10. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tupac Shakur
#11. There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated
Tupac Shakur
#12. Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall
Tupac Shakur
#13. When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.
Tupac Shakur
#14. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.
Tupac Shakur
#15. There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.
Tupac Shakur
#16. I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.
Tupac Shakur
#17. One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
J. Cole
#18. I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"
Spencer Pratt
#19. I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.
Trent Reznor
#20. Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.
Tupac Shakur
#21. The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it's planted in stone
Tupac Shakur
#22. Though things change, the future's still inside of me.
Tupac Shakur
#23. I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.
Tupac Shakur
#24. Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.
Tupac Shakur
#25. It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?
Tupac Shakur
#26. That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.
Tupac Shakur
#27. It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.
Tupac Shakur
#28. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.
Tupac Shakur
#29. When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.
Tupac Shakur
#30. As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
Jhene Aiko
#31. How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.
Tupac Shakur
#32. I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.
Tupac Shakur
#33. Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party
Tupac Shakur
#34. Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.
Tupac Shakur
#35. If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.
Tupac Shakur
#36. Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
Tupac Shakur
#37. There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."
Tupac Shakur
#38. I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.
Tupac Shakur
#39. There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.
Marco Rubio
#40. Everybody's at war with different things ... I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
Tupac Shakur
#41. It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.
Tupac Shakur
#42. I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.
Tupac Shakur
#43. Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.
Tupac Shakur
#44. The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.
Tupac Shakur
#45. It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tupac Shakur
#46. Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.
Tupac Shakur
#47. I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
Tupac Shakur
#48. I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.
Shameik Moore
#49. I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.
Tupac Shakur
#50. I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.
ASAP Rocky
#52. I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet
Tupac Shakur
#53. If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.
Tupac Shakur
#54. Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good,
Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods.
Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook,
Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke ...
Tupac Shakur
#55. I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven
Tupac Shakur
#56. Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing ... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.
Tupac Shakur
#57. And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.
Tupac Shakur
#58. No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.
Tupac Shakur
#60. I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.
Tupac Shakur
#61. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.
Tupac Shakur
#62. In the world that came after this one, I was sure she had a grin on her face while she hung out with Tupac and Nemo's mom.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#63. I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.
Tupac Shakur
#64. Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur
#65. If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark ... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.
Tupac Shakur
#66. It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
Tupac Shakur
#67. Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.
Tupac Shakur
#68. I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.
Tupac Shakur
#69. Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.
Tupac Shakur
#70. Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.
Tupac Shakur
#72. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur
#73. Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.
Tupac Shakur
#74. Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row
Tupac Shakur
#76. Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance ...
Tupac Shakur
#77. Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.
Tupac Shakur
#78. I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
Tupac Shakur
#79. Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.
Tupac Shakur
#80. Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in ...
Tupac Shakur
#81. I was raised in the city, shitty
Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty
Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty
And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,
And drinking liquor til' you out cold
Tupac Shakur
#82. My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.
Tupac Shakur
#83. Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.
Tupac Shakur
#84. I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend.
Stephanie Mills
#86. Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.
Tupac Shakur
#87. It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur
#88. Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.
Tupac Shakur
#89. It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.
Tupac Shakur
#90. Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.
Tupac Shakur
#91. My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.
Tupac Shakur
#92. I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.
Tupac Shakur
#93. I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up ... and handle it.
Tupac Shakur
#94. They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.
Tupac Shakur
#95. There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Tupac Shakur
#96. Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy
Tupac Shakur
#97. I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent
Tupac Shakur
#98. Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.
Tupac Shakur
#99. Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
Tupac Shakur
#100. Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
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